Sources: Globe will cut back staff, raise price
BOSTON. The Boston Globe will soon announce cutbacks at the newspaper, including hundreds of layoffs, and an increase in the per copy price of the paper to 75 cents as of Feb. 1, according to several sources inside and outside of the paper.
Sources informed Metro of the expected changes yesterday. Calls for comment to Globe Publisher Steven Ainsley and Executive Vice President Al Larkin Jr. were not immediately returned.
The Globe saw a nearly 7 percent decrease — from 386,417 to 360,695 — in its daily circulation between Sept. 2006 and Sept. 2007, according to numbers released in November by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. That report showed the paper’s Sunday circulation down about 6.5 percent.
The Globe, which currently sells its Monday through Saturday editions for 50 cents, owns 49 percent of Metro Boston.
